Alpharts Tod is an anonymous poem from the late medieval period, written in Middle High German, and is part of the poetic cycle surrounding the hero Dietrich von Bern, who serves as a counterpart to the historical Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great within Germanic heroic legend. This work is included in what is referred to as the – historical – Dietrich material. It is believed to have been composed sometime between 1245 and 1300, although it survives in a single manuscript dating from app ... (Read More)